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How to… connect sectors to kickstart innovation | CLES
How to… connect sectors to kickstart innovation | CLES.
Cross Innovation Policy Clinic in Birmingham
We are joined in Birmingham tomorrow by colleagues from Vilnius and Warsaw for our Cross Innovation project policy clinic looking at how various different brokerage services can aid the interaction of the creative sector with other sectors with a view to kick starting innovation. Details of best practice projects in Vilnius and Warsaw can be […]
Fantastic New Park in Birmingham
Just visited the new park in Eastside in Birmingham. Fantastic design, quality materials, lovely planting, quirky and fun. Very highest standards…best thing to happen in Birmingham for years More photos………
The Economic Impact of Birmingham’s New Library
As the opening of Birmingham’s massive new library approaches in September 2013 I am keen to try and assess what economic impact it will make. Undoubtedly it will have a significant cultural impact but will it match the ICC, and Millennium Point in economic returns for the £200m spent? 1)Has any impact research been done […]
Birmingham’s Eastside: The last 10 years
Sometimes it is good to recap on progress as if one lives in a city…this passes one by. I remember visiting my home town of Nottingham for many years after I left and I used to judge the pace of change by how many new shops had opened on Mansfield Road (an inner city road […]
Frankfurt Christmas Market, The Bull Ring Markets and Markets in General
Birmingham’s Frankfurt Christmas Market taken by Birmingham Culture It was rather shocking to hear on Radio 4 recently a You and Yours item on the rise of Christmas Markets in the UK where they did a special feature on the Frankfurt Christmas market, a market that attracts 3 million visitor, bringing in upwards of £100m […]
Birmingham Arts and Culture Summit
Tomorrow an important summit with national and international speakers kicks off on the role of the Arts and the Cultural sector in Birmingham’s economy. During the 1990’s Birmingham invested heavily in this sector with the BRB, the Hippodrome and Symphony Hall being some of the investments but the pace of this investment has slackened in […]
Cross Innovation
Now this is blog post is not about when an Innovator gets angry and how it stimulates innovation; it is rather how working across sectors in the economy can lead to innovation. The concept of Cross Innovation is a major talking point now in Europe. Europe has deep rooted economic problems and is looking to […]
What has been the effect of Devolution on English Core Cities
I have been wondering for a while if anyone has done any research on the possible relative effects of the devolution programme in the UK on the English Core Cities. This would be through the positive investment engendered in the capital cities in the devolved territories and the behaviour of the UK Govt towards cities […]
Good News about Tourism in Birmingham but is it sustainable
The recent announcement by Marketing Birmingham of increased visitor numbers in 2011 is fantastic news but as a resident of Birmingham and a visitor to many other cities I instinctively feel that Birmingham has not quite got it right yet. I often struggle to find something to offer to visitors on a wet Sunday afternoon […]
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